Shakespeare Monologue Festival
for Students Grades 6-9

March 17 , 2011
1:00 pm - Arrive at Imagination Stage
1:15 pm - Warm-Up for All Contestants
1:30 pm - Monologue Performances
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD
(click here for directions and parking information)

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ALL AREA SCHOOLS are invited to send a participant to the festival.  Participants must be permanent residents of the United States, and must be enrolled in 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade.

Overview:

1. The teacher/coordinator in the school indicates interest in participating in an email to Lindsay Hearn at lhearn@imaginationstage.org.
   
   
2. If more than one student is interested in participating, the coordinator organizes a festival at the local level.  Students select and prepare a monologue, using guidelines for students. The school festival should be judged, if possible, by at least three qualified observers, to be drawn from teachers, actors, directors, or others in the community who are knowledgeable about Shakespeare.  Judges select one student from your school to participate in the Shakespeare Monologue Festival.
   
   
3. The coordinator submits a student entrant form to lhearn@imaginationstage.org by March 1, 2011.
   
   
4. School winners and their teachers may participate in a workshop designed to help students prepare for the festival. This year’s workshops will be held at Imagination Stage on February 12 and 26 from 9:00am-12:00pm.  To participate, please RSVP by February 1 to lhearn@imaginationstage.org.
   
   
5. Entrants, accompanied by coordinators and/or family members, attend the festival at Imagination Stage on Thursday, March 17, 2010.  After warm-up activities conclude, participants will introduce themselves, the character and the title of the play.  Students will then perform their monologues of 20-25 lines.  After the monologue performances, we will have lunch and then several workshops for students to participate in.
   
   
6. Student participants may not be professional or semi-professional actors.  A professional or semi-professional actor is here defined as one who has received, or is scheduled to receive, payment for a professional or semi-professional acting performance during the school year in which the festival occurs.

Detailed guidelines for coordinators, suggested monologues, entrant forms, and directions to Imagination Stage are available at this website and can be faxed, e-mailed, or mailed to your school. __________________________________________

Sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies and Imagination Stage.